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Floater   Listen
noun
Floater  n.  
1.
One who floats or swims.
2.
A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
3.
(Politics)
(a)
A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable. (U. S.)
(b)
A person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own. (U. S.)
(c)
A person who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted. (U. S.)





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"Floater" Quotes from Famous Books



... in her brain. She leaned closer and exclaimed in a low voice: "And how do we know he doesn't get by with murder the way he does with everything else? There's many a man picked up along the coast as a 'floater' that nobody knows ...
— El Diablo • Brayton Norton
... floater began to bob fiercely up and down. There was a strong tug on her line, and the reel began to revolve at a high rate of speed, as Mr. Fish, evidently aware that in snapping what appeared to be a nice, fat ...
— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond
... pursued, with his mirthless croak of a laugh. Then he flashed up at her a quick look of resentment, a look which he found himself unable to repress. "While you're all dolled up," he said with a snort, as though bent on wounding her, "dolled up like a lobster palace floater!" ...
— Never-Fail Blake • Arthur Stringer


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